Puur Pris - tekendagboek over kanker, leven, beleven en verwerken

Boosheid, angst, frustratie en pure wanhoop, maar ook hoop, optimisme en kracht...

Die kolkende achtbaan aan emoties is herkenbaar voor iedereen die te maken krijgt met een levensbedreigende ziekte. Of zelf. Of in de naaste omgeving.

Op het moment dat Prisca Hurks, moeder van Sjors en Femme, de diagnose eierstokkanker kreeg, stond haar leven stil. Plotsklaps stond haar leven volledig op zijn kop; zoveel vragen en geen (of halfbakken) antwoorden. Hoe moet dit verder? Wie zorgt er voor mijn kinderen als ik in het ziekenhuis lig? Kan ik nog werken? En straks? Kán ik nog wel werken? Wat wil ik überhaupt nog? Kan ik op vakantie? Of op reis? Wat voor behandelingen ga ik krijgen? Gaat mijn haar uitvallen?
En dan die levensvraag: hoe groot is de kans dat ik het ga redden? Vragen, die bleven malen. Overdag de stoere moeder, 's nachts soms gewoon hopeloos in paniek.

Haar verhaal is helaas niet uniek. Wel is Prisca uniek in de wijze waarop ze met haar ziekte en het leven van alledag omging en haar emoties verwerkte: door te tekenen. De tekeningen, die een gevoelige snaar raken bij zowel vrienden als onbekenden, bieden
herkenning, maar ook troost

About the author

A leading scholar in the field of gender studies, Michael Kimmel is author or editor of more than twenty volumes on the subject, including the groundbreaking Manhood in America. A professor of sociology, he teaches at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Summary

Why do so many guys seem stuck between adolescence and adulthood? Why do so many of them fail to launch? Just what is going on with America's young men?

The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear, coherent, and relatively secure: in their late teenage years and early twenties, guys "put away childish things" and entered their futures as responsible adults. Today growing up has become more complex and confusing as young men drift casually through college and beyond-hanging out, partying, playing with tech toys, watching sports. But beneath the appearance of a simple extended boyhood, a more dangerous social world has developed, far away from the traditional signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood.
The average young American man today is moving through a new stage of development, a buddy culture unfazed by the demands of parents, girlfriends, jobs, kids, and other nuisances of adult life. Sociologist and gender studies authority Michael Kimmel has identified this territory as "Guyland," a place that is both a stage of life and a new social arena.
Guyland is the locker room writ large: the world where young men both test and prove themselves as men and develop the defining attitudes and self-images they will carry into adulthood. Kimmel has interviewed hundreds of young men ages sixteen to twenty-six in high schools and college fraternity houses, military academies and sports bars, to better understand Guyland's rules and restrictions, its layers of peer pressure and gender policing, its features and artifacts-from the ordinary (video games, sports, and music) to the extreme (violent fraternity initiations, sexual predation).
In mapping the social world where tomorrow's men are made, Kimmel offers a view into the minds and times of America's sons, brothers, and boyfriends, and works toward redefining what it means to be a man today-and tomorrow. Only by understanding this world and this life stage can we enable young men to chart their own paths, to stay true to themselves, and to travel safely through Guyland, emerging as responsible and fully formed men of integrity and honor.

Additional text

"Guyland takes up where Real Boys left off...a must-read for parents, teachers, coaches, young women who are so confused by the guys in their midst-and for guys themselves who yearn to break free of unwritten rules that leave them half a man, rather than a whole person."

Product details

• Authors: Prisca Hurks
• Assisted by: Prisca Hurks (Illustration)
• Publisher: NBC - FC Klap
• Languages: Flemish
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 224 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subject: Fiction